when it doubt let BERTHA smooth it right out.
I picked this up at Ramble on Rose and the sound is EXCELLENT
This show is such a different vibe from 6/16-Iowa
which was at the Des Moines State Fair.
I would imagine that had to be a pretty big deal
and was an outdoor all day gig.
Sometimes a well placed indoor show on Summer Tour
can make all the difference
( saw the Grateful Dead at Freedom Hall
with Brent breaking out a Louie, Louie..)
The LOSER is sounding so nice.
Mexicali-Yeah it's Polka time
Anytime you get a 1st set Eyes things are going your way!
it seems they may have decided to flip the WRS with Eyes
which is the kinda decision that always seemed
to make for a more dynamic show.
1st set is Not gigantic but very well played.
They seem to really lean into each tune and JAM.
Spoiler alert: Beware 1st review on this show (Nyssa)
Nothing worse than being in the EYES jam
while reading about the guy from Venus and his bad life trip
taking passive-aggressive bitter shots at the band.
The EYES with SLIPKNOT riffs
really takes everything up a notch
Have to throw in that China Doll
so the audience will be able to deplane for intermission.
Joint was Jumping!
As for the 2nd set
I am going to see how it dances
hope you are able to do the same
LA-LAH-LA-LA-LAH-LA-LAH
O.K had to comment on 2nd set.
Trying to dance thru the jam out of The Other One
Well kinda like Shadowboxing the Apocalypse
5 stars just for that JAM * * * * *
Big River-Wow, Love this late in the show
hard to even conceive of it being so in the later years.
and just the most unexpected placement for JED.
Has to be a nod to the Southern Geography
Love Garcia--"Know you bound to wind up D-E-A-D !!! "
Tasty Sugar Magnolia, Keith tickling those keys
Double Time it to Sunshine Daydream
Weir & DJG shredding those vocal chords
What did they encore with ?
MORNING DEW!
nuff said.
* * * * *

Since I've already showed Charlie Miller a lot of love, thought I'd do the same for JA. Admittedly I have a crappy pair of headphones at the moment, but this version brings out much more depth in the drums to my ear, giving it a fuller sound than Charlie's version. Kudos Jay!
And thank you IA for giving me this glorious piece of music back after too long. This Eyes, good lord. All Eyes lovers should also check out gd1974-09-11.131901.aud.unk.flac16, which I just discovered (so many gems, so little time!). It's just ridiculously grand. Go have a listen and tap into the Eternal Groove and remember just how eternal now is.

Because this is now a "commercial release" of which is sold out! I can't listen to this! WTF!!! Ok,now here is part two of my proposition, either give me a free copy of this 2 disk or put it back in the web site where it belongs so I can at least listen to it!

Now thats just a bunch of nubbish rubbish. The most detached morning dew?!??!?! are you out of your damn mind?!?! You must not like/listen to the dead much, cuz anyone with a trained ear for dead, knows that this show has plenty of special moments, and the Morning Dew is one of them. They did make this into a Road Trips you know.
GReat show, disregard the nubs....

3 stars? No. Much better but I am partial to a few other Eyes. Still, such a treat to listen to. Thanks.

Summer of 74' Eyes are a s smokin' as they come. I will challenge the "best Eyes ever played" comment w/ the one from Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey on 8/6/1974. I have yet to find a mad hatter like that one. It is on Dick's Picks # 31 and it will raise the bar as high as she goes, I firmly believe. Bobby's comments post Eyes are worth their weight in gold, then they launch into a wild and spooky Playin' that will send you to the psych ward.... Check it out if it slipped you by............
As for this show, thanks again Jay Ashley for a meaty mix for my speakers. "Bertha" can do no wrong!

Love this show..one of my all time favorites. It is a great mix after technical problems...thanks to McIntosh and JBL....great song selection and oh yeah.... great playing.

...take a breath. And btw, "vapid" means flacid, empty, or meaningless--which could not be farther from what this night was for the band, imho. In fact, I would say this is a high water mark.
Along with the monumental versions of some of the Dead's major accomplishments (as has been well documented) this show may also have the best El Paso ever!
Great work on this "new" recording. Sounds wonderful.

...It shall be after sitting (and dancing) through this show.
And let me thank you, PNC, for pointing up the fact that I misappropriated the term "vapid." You are right, and I was wrong.
To clarify, I did not adequately state toward what the vapidness was in reference. And, to justify my gaff, I will only add that due to inherent sound probs with the Wall of Sound that night and some omnipresent recording muffs (drop-outs, loss of signal in one or the other channel, etc.) perhaps what I really wanted to express was that Jerry Garcia's guitar work, and how his performance seemed to lift the rest of the band up to his level, that this recording emptied my brain of a lot of space trash, cleansed it, made it vapid, and reconstructed a brand new heart within me.
Take a breath you say? No way. I am jumping up and down and hyperventilating as result of four replays of this Garcia masterpiece. In my opinion, so far, this is the finest Jerry there is -- the epitome of all he was trying to explain just before the wind and rain ravages of rock and roll took him over and ever-so-gradually eroded his talent. He is just relentlessly all over it from start to end.
Now you would expect from such a statement that I would be comparing leads, but it's so much more than leads -- it's big fat chords and rich fills and scintillating little quips thrown in between words and silences. The Wolf was so well-captured that night you can hear the glistering white heat liquid oozing out, tastefully, all throughout, and it coats and soothes like a cough syrup painting you into a new horizon to which your own soul can add its own color from an soon-inspired palette.
After what I am about to say, I know that if ever any surviving members of the GD read this review, they would order my spleen delivered on a gilded spit, yet I have to say this is the definitive Grateful Dead show from a Coltrane-esque viewpoint. Pretty broad and wild statement, huh?
Well, the other night before I listened again to this version of Eyes of the World, I was playing some Coltrane from the 60's, during a time of his deployment when he was just letting it all hang out -- blowing his horn with such reckless dispatch that it defied all logic.
This Eyes>China Doll on this show speaks of the Grateful Dead's supreme lionization of Coltrane and they do him imminent justice. Jerry coaxes perhaps 15 different tones and 15 distinct styles of music out of his axe that night.
Merely the tone and demeanor of his instrumental recital could inspire one to gush, but it's not only his guitar, it's in his singing, and it's his attack with confidence with just the right amount of forcefulness and aplomb that preserves this as an epic.
I cannot get over it. To date: best Jerry Garcia performance ever -- and the band fell right in line with his effusion of dazzlement.
So, I encourage you to look past some of the anomalies present and listen ever so closely to all the sounds that Garcia plied out of his guitar that night underlined and reinforced by a Wall of Sound that, once the evening's bugs were eradicated, glows in perpetuity.

no way man, if there was a 10, i'd give it. this has been steady in my rotation since 85. don't believe the dis . . .
yeah, thin vocals on the wall of sound due to phase canceling mics, but dang, the eyes of the world is the best ever, the weather report -> other one -> it's a sin jam is amazing, the morning dew encore is nothing short of ridiculous!
roll all of that up in a jay ashley remasterpiece, and you've got at least 5 stars.

Wake Of The Flood was the first and only Dead in my home for a couple of years when I was a teen. Couldn't stand it, the strained vocals, the inane kerplunking, it was so slow! Once high, playing along on guitar, though, I could hear the peaceful, playful feeling that's throughout this '74 concert.
Phil's slipping and ratcheting, missed notes or dissonance,-- it feels fine, hearing what they're playing,- or trying to play. The thin, tinny vocals help with the recreation of the attitude. Even Black-Throated Wind barely gets a charge this night, and ending the show with the most resigned, detached Morning Dew ever does a beautiful job of draining the willpower. Perfect reminiscence.